From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2006-06-26T14:34:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Hello Tim,

TB> Well, on strings, indexing and substring operations and iterators and
TB> regular expressions should (at least optionally) have character  
TB> rather than byte semantics, right?

For UTF-8 which hopefully will rule the world soon, the worst libraries
i have seen are trying to do this. But it is not the intention of the
designers and with an implementation that works on characters
you loose the genius encoding style of UTF-8.

Of course some operation are more difficult, but this is left for good
reasons to the application programmer. Only few cases of string
manipulation need some special (non ASCII) character handling.


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